AMD Zambezi news, info, fans !

[Formula350]

I'm going to have to check my desktop computer (which is in sleep mode) to see for sure, but... I was pppretty darn certain I replied with my guesses on the ASUS slide about clock speeds >_> If I did, then for some reason it got deleted

Anyways, I came to talk about something else, but the talk on delays brings us something else I saw on the Wiki page too (yes, I take Wiki info with a grain of salt, don't worry haha).

First is all the Zambezi release dates are marked at June 20th, so that might be where the speculation is stemming from. Also after thinking about it, I guess I'm not totally sure if I ever read that AMD was releasing it on June 7th, but it may only have been said "debut". If that's the case then it could technically hit the market later on like said; not likely if you ask me.

The other part is where Wiki says, for Six and Quad cores, that they are "Native # core, with # cores disabled" My understanding was "native" meant no compromises or whatnot have been made to make something. That would make VIA's latest Nano quad core "Native", when it has two physical dies on one chip (ala Intel Quad). So wouldn't that make it NOT a native design (for all three, AMD, VIA and Intel)? Or is my understanding of what Native implies not quite correct?

OH yea, and it's listing an HT of 3200MHz. I thought that the CPU-NB was running at 2600MHz on the desktop chips? While it generally doesn't work, I'm 95% sure (it was last year) I had my Athlon II X2 250u 1.6GHz running with a higher HT then NB speed, but it's pretty much common knowledge to not run the HT above NB speed due to the almost certain fact of instability. Anyways, more inaccuracies on the Wiki article's part, or more misunderstanding on my part? lol
Link to the Wiki

Now... time to go fire up the desktop and find my post that's MIA...

EDIT: Found my post, which I had posted, but still isn't here. I hit browser back and got it all (after taking a screenshot) and before I got around to submitting it my comp crashed haha Oh well, I got the screenshot at least! Still don't know why this got deleted or what have you (glitch in the Matrix?)

[2good4you]

The clock rates for the 8 core BD are not that high, in part because you can't achieve Turbo Core 2.0 levels, as posted here:



...without setting the stock speeds to a more conservative level. The above is a good representation of what the FX-8130P will be able to achieve in terms of Turbo Core.

Nothing says it must be the 8130P, maybe a lowe clocked model. With different stock frequencies, turbo mode is necessarily not 30% boost in freq on all models.